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Light-induced Torque on Moving Atoms

Babiker, M., Power, W. L., Allen, L.·1994·Physical Review Letters

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We show that a two-level atom moving in a Laguerre-Gaussian beam is subject to a light-induced torque, $T$, about the beam axis which is directly proportional to $l$, the orbital angular momentum quantum number of the mode. The torque, which has a Lorentzian frequency response which includes an azimuthal $l$-dependent Doppler shift in the detuning term, reduces in the saturation limit to the simple form $T\ensuremath{\approx}\ensuremath{\hbar}l\ensuremath{\Gamma}$, where $2\ensuremath{\Gamma}$ is the decay rate of the excited state.

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Authors
Babiker, M., Power, W. L., & Allen, L.
Venue
Physical Review Letters
Published
1994-08-29
Volume
73
Issue
9
Pages
1239-1242
ISSN
0031-9007 (ISSN-L)
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W1981776934
Cited by
185
References
1
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3.91
Type
journal article
Language
en
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